"some dramatic irony: For example, he does not know that it is Don John who ruins the wedding until his henchman, Borachio, admits it. Don Pedro has been portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Samuel Goldwyn Company 1993 film. He was played by Reed Diamond in Joss Whedon's interpretation of the play, which was released in 2012. Don Pedro (character) Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play ""Much Ado About Nothing"". In the play, Don Pedro visits his friend Leonato in Messina, Italy while coming back from war. He also helps bring together one"
"to understand Dogberry's nonsensical description of the supposed crimes, but allows Dogberry to examine them. His absurd pseudo-legal rhetoric confuses matters even more, but when the Prince arrives at the truth about Don John, the plot is revealed and the arrested man confesses. Dogberry is rewarded for his diligence and leaves. As is usual in Shakespearean comedy, and Renaissance comedy generally, he is a figure of comic incompetence. The humour of Dogberry’s character is his frequent use of malapropism, a product of his pretentiousness, as he attempts to use sophisticated terminology with disastrous results. The name of the character is"
"the Elizabethan common name for the fruit of the Common Dogwood (""Cornus sanguinea""), considered lowly and inferior to other edible berries. Shakespeare appears to be poking mild fun at the amateur police forces of his day, in which respectable citizens spent a fixed number of nights per year fulfilling an obligation to protect the public peace, a job for which they were, by and large, unqualified. Dogberry and his crew, however, are also given a thematic function, for it is they who (accidentally) uncover the plot of Don John and begin the process of restoration that leads to the play’s"
"Dogberry's injunction"". Dogberry was almost certainly created to be performed by William Kempe, as the names ""Kemp"" and ""Kem"" are sometimes accidentally substituted for the character-name in the published version of the play. Dogberry was played by the noted comedy actor Samuel Johnson during the 1880s and 1890s for Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in London. John Martin-Harvey described him as the acknowledged Shakespearean clown of his day, and his portrayal of Dogberry (1882 and 1893) reflects this claim. In a noted 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production set in India during the British Raj, John Woodvine played Dogberry"
"thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other characters. He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton"
"happy conclusion. In that sense, Dogberry’s comic ineptitude is made to serve the sense of a providential force overseeing the fortunate restoration of social and emotional order. In addition to frequent malapropism, Dogberry provides the list of charges as a numbered list out of order comprising redundant items: <poem> </poem> and, in trying to make sure that the criminals’ insulting of him is recorded in the evidence against them, Dogberry repeatedly insists that it be written down that “[he is] an ass.” Implying that fact only makes his case worse and adds humor to the story. According to historian John"
"while knowing Benedick to be hiding within earshot. Hero and her gentlewoman Ursula play the same trick upon Beatrice. Each of them believes the story they hear about the other. In the midst of all of this good-natured scheming, Don John has been searching for ways to stop the marriage between Claudio and Hero. The night before the wedding, Don John's servant Borachio arranges a steamy liaison with Hero's gentlewoman Margaret at Hero's chamber window. Don John shows Don Pedro and Claudio this, and they believe that they are seeing Hero in the act of infidelity. Against the revelry of"
"characters seem to be obsessed by the idea that a man has no way to know if his wife is faithful and therefore women can take full advantage of that fact. Don John plays upon Claudio's pride and fear of cuckoldry, which leads to the disastrous first wedding. Many of the males easily believe that Hero is impure and even her father readily condemns her with very little proof. This motif runs through the play, often in references to horns, a symbol of cuckoldry. In contrast, Balthasar's song ""Sigh No More"" tells women to accept men's infidelity and continue to"
"of the humor, the performances, and Branagh's lively direction, of which he wrote, ""This film cements Branagh's status as a great director of Shakespeare, and perhaps of film in general, as well."" Conversely, Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" wrote the film a negative review, praising some moments as ""invigorating fun"", but ultimately calling it ""overripe."" Most of the negative criticisms focused on particular casting choices, notably Keanu Reeves as Don John, and Michael Keaton as Dogberry. For his performance in the film, Reeves was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor, where he lost to Woody Harrelson"
"lover, and therefore assumes him to be an impostor. Sobering, Strathpeffer realizes he has come to the wrong party and asserts his right to his title; but Gwennie (Angella Mawby) hides her father's watch in Strathpeffer's pocket as he is renewing his romance with Margery. A police inspector arrives hunting for the missing lord, establishing his authenticity and the fact that he is not, after all, the hired guest. The play premiered in London in 1903 at the Prince of Wales Theatre and was revived in 1906 at the Haymarket Theatre to much success. It played on Broadway at the"
"parallels with Shakespeare's plays, Ryan discovers that the leader of the conspirators, Nolan, was the translator of Shakespeare into Gaelic. Eventually, Ryan works out that the nationalists knew they had been betrayed to the British authorities and Kilpatrick admitted he was the informer. After sentencing him to death, Nolan agreed to make his passing a memorable event in Irish history. So Nolan hastily faked the Shakespearean echoes and out of a sordid plot a hero was born. Ryan decides to leave the myth intact. In addition to the plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth, with often heavy irony Borges links his"
"the court and reveals Edmund's illegitimacy. The pilot episode differs from ""Born to Be King"" a number of respects: As with other episodes in this series, the end credits include an acknowledgement of ""additional dialogue by William Shakespeare"". The script parodies certain elements of the Shakespeare's plays, notably the plot to assassinate Dougal MacAngus, Duke of Argyll which draws on the plot against Hamlet by Laertes and Claudius, while the use of daggers as a plot device and the presence of a Scottish antagonist character allude to ""Macbeth"". The presentation of an Egyptian mock tragedy in the castle is itself"
"to investigate the play by Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe, ""The Isle of Dogs"", which upset the authorities so badly. Fortunately for Jonson, by then Topcliffe's general commission had been withdrawn, and his power much curtailed, though he never lost favor with the Queen and the Cecils. It is possible, though unlikely, that he initiated the inquiry. Topcliffe, who was engaged in a long-running attempt to destroy the Catholic Fitzherberts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, persuaded Sir Thomas Fitzherbert's heir, also Thomas, to assist him. He entered into a bond under which Thomas Fitzherbert would pay him ₤3,000 for bringing about"
"Dougall has played a wide range of roles in Shakespeare plays, including ""Henry VIII"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""Coriolanus"", and ""The Winter’s Tale"" for the Globe Theatre, ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"", ""Twelfth Night"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""Henry V"", ""The Winter’s Tale"", ""Richard III"", ""The Comedy of Errors"" and ""The Merchant of Venice"" for Propeller, and ""Hamlet"", ""Macbeth"", and ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works has included ""The Devil is an Ass"", ""The Cherry Orchard"", and ""The Crucible"" for the RSC, ""Saint Joan"" at the Strand Theatre; ""Shadow of a Gunman"" and ""John Bull’s"
"his histories. It is not clear, however, if Shakespeare characterised Falstaff as he did for dramatic purposes, or because of a specific desire to satirise Oldcastle or the Cobhams. Cobham was a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature; he figures in Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in His Humour"" and may have been part of the reason ""The Isle of Dogs"" was suppressed. Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Roman Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of"
"except for Ursula, the Friar, Leonato, Beatrice, Antonio, and Benedick. They all agree to the Friar's plan to publish the tale that Hero, upon the grief of Claudio's accusations, suddenly died. Beatrice and Benedick linger a moment and eventually confess their love to one another. In the wake of this declaration, Beatrice asks Benedick to do the one thing that will satisfy her outrage with what has just happened – kill Claudio. With a heavy heart, he agrees to challenge his friend. Meanwhile, Borachio and Conrade are interrogated by Dogberry and his men. Despite Dogberry's incompetence, the truth of Don"
"to reach the mark set by Franco Zeffirelli's ""Romeo and Juliet"", made it one of the most financially successful Shakespeare films ever released. It was also entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Having just crushed an uprising by his half-brother, Don John, Don Pedro of Aragon and his noblemen visit their friend Leonato in Messina. Accompanying Don Pedro is the witty Benedick, former lover of Leonato's equally sharp-tongued niece, Beatrice. Also present are Benedick's friend Claudio, a young count; and Don John who, despite his rebellion, has apparently reconciled with his brother. Claudio has been thinking of Leonato's beautiful"
"with his victory at Agincourt and his wooing of Princess Katherine. The work is of unknown authorship, and various possible authors have been proposed, including a young Shakespeare, though this view is not widely accepted by scholars. ""The English Court, Officials"": ""English Citizens"": Friends of Prince Henry ""Tradespeople"" ""The French Court, Officials, Military"": ""French Soldiers"": Prince Henry and his companions have committed a robbery, stealing £1000 from two Royal Receivers. He meets Jocky Oldcastle and tells him of events. The Receivers, pursuing the robbers, bump into Henry who ""forgives"" them for losing the money, but also threatens them. They leave."
"attempt to burgle Don Salluste's safe and find that he has got himself locked inside it. They release him, but he is immediately arrested because in his safe are found some of the Queen's jewels, which he has stolen. Ruy Blas wins the Queen's heart by various daring deeds, including bullfighting. He is proclaimed King, and Don Caesar is appointed to the post of Lord Chamberlain vacated by the disgraced Salluste. The critics generally viewed the libretto as a departure from the old traditions of burlesque, because its resemblance to the original work was tangential, and because Hugo's ""Ruy Blas"""
"that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. </poem> Henry believes in the purity of justice, and cannot imagine how it could possibly be corrupt; ""And poise the cause in justice' equal scales/Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails"" (2.1.199-200). However, the perversion of justice is also a dominant theme throughout the play, despite Henry's inability to see it. One of the most famous lines in the play, spoken by the rebel Cade's sidekick Dick the Butcher, is ""the first thing we do, let's kill all the"
"a tax levied specifically for the purpose of hiring full-time watchmen. Some voluntary prosecution societies also hired men to patrol their areas. While the societies for the reformation of manners showed there was a good deal of support for the effective policing of morality, they also suggested that the existing mechanisms of crime control were regarded by some as ineffective. Constable Dogberry's men from ""Much Ado About Nothing"" by Shakespeare would 'rather sleep than talk' may be dismissed as merely a dramatic device or a caricature, but successful dramatists nevertheless work with characters who strike a chord with their audience."
"Henry IV, he has Richard taken prisoner to the castle of Pomfret. Aumerle and others plan a rebellion against the new king, but York discovers his son's treachery and reveals it to Henry, who spares Aumerle as a result of the intercession of the Duchess of York while executing the other conspirators. After interpreting King Henry's ""living fear"" as a reference to the still-living Richard, an ambitious nobleman (Exton) goes to the prison and murders him. King Henry repudiates the murderer and vows to journey to Jerusalem to cleanse himself of his part in Richard's death. Shakespeare's primary source for"
"filmed as ""King John"" (1899), the earliest known example of any film based on Shakespeare. For Herbert Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket Theatre Calvert played Francis Flute in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in 1900, and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" in 1905. Of Calvert's interpretation of Dogberry, George Bernard Shaw wrote in the ""Saturday Review"": ""To Mr Calvert [the dialogue] is as natural as his native speech; he makes it clear, expressive and vivid without the least preoccupation."" In 1904 Calvert created the role of Tom Broadbent in George Bernard Shaw's ""John Bull's Other Island"" at the Royal Court"
"censorship). Oldcastle is a religious but not a political dissenter; his quarrel is with the Roman Catholic Church, and he remains loyal to the Crown and to Henry V personally (II,iii). The villain of the piece is the Bishop of Rochester, aided by his summoner Clun. The same cast of rebels and conspirators is active in this play (II,ii, III,ii, etc.) as in ""Henry V,"" but Oldcastle keeps scrupulously separate from them. The play offers a comic character, Sir John of Wrotham, a pale imitation of Falstaff, who interacts with a disguised Henry V (III,iv) much as in Shakespeare's plays."
"exclaims, ""I fight against thee! / No: I will go seek some ditch wherein to die"" (IV. 6. 38–39). Although he abandoned Antony, critic Kent Cartwright claims Enobarbus' death ""uncovers his greater love"" for him considering it was caused by the guilt of what he had done to his friend thus adding to the confusion of the characters' loyalty and betrayal that previous critics have also discovered. Even though loyalty is central to secure alliances, Shakespeare is making a point with the theme of betrayal by exposing how people in power cannot be trusted, no matter how honest their word"
"their faults and reconcile. Meanwhile, Don Pedro's brother Don John, the ""bastard prince"", plots to stop the wedding, embarrass his brother and wreak misery on Leonato and Claudio. He informs Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is unfaithful, and arranges for them to see John's associate Borachio enter her bedchamber where he has an amorous liaison (actually with Margaret, Hero's chambermaid). Claudio and Don Pedro are taken in, and Claudio vows to humiliate Hero publicly. At the wedding the next day, Claudio denounces Hero before the stunned guests and storms off with Don Pedro. Hero faints. Her humiliated father Leonato"
"1909, and again in Stratford for the Jonson tercentenary in 1937. The later production received much more favourable reviews. John Caird directed the play during the inaugural season of the Swan Theatre in 1986. In general outline, this play follows Latin models quite closely. In the main plot, a gentleman named Kno'well, concerned for his son's moral development, attempts to spy on his son, a typical city gallant; however, his espionage is continually subverted by the servant, Brainworm, whom he employs for this purpose. These types are clearly slightly Anglicized versions of ancient types of Greek New Comedy, namely the"
"Clara Longworth de Chambrun in her novel ""My Shakespeare, Rise!"", and is linked to claims that Shakespeare was a secret Catholic sympathiser. The theory was revived and developed by John Finnis and Patrick Martin in 2003. It has been extended by Martin Dodwell to suggest that Shakespeare takes the fate of Anne and Roger Line to symbolize the rejection of Catholicism by England, and he then returns to this allegorical scheme in the play ""Cymbeline"". A series of other Shakespearean allusions to Anne Line have been proposed by various scholars (Colin Wilson, Gerard Kilroy) most notably in ""The Tempest"" and"
"and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other parts. He was replaced around the turn of the 16th century by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". Little is certainly known about acting styles. Critics praised the best actors for their naturalness. Scorn was heaped on ranters and on those who ""tore a passion to tatters"", as Hamlet has it. Also with Hamlet, playwrights complain of clowns who improvise on stage (modern critics often blame Kemp in particular in this regard). In the older tradition of comedy"
"is being blackmailed by opera singer Eduardo Gambetti over a lewd letter she sent him. The assassin finds out about Hill's and Sigerson's meeting and reports it to an obviously math-challenged Professor Moriarty. Sigerson attends one of Hill's performances and saves her from another would-be assassin by injecting himself into the play from the audience and directing Hill through a musical number. He then saves her again when two hansom cabs accost her on her way home; the trauma prompts Hill to temporarily stop cooperating in the case. Sigerson (dismayed that Sherlock got credit for saving Hill in the newspaper)"
"criminal. Now a wanted man with his media image on the verge of plummeting, Sherlock launches a final gambit. Leaving John, Sherlock contacts Molly Hooper, a pathologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he confesses that contrary to what she herself believes, she does matter to him, and that he's always trusted her. There he reveals his vulnerability to Molly, confirming her earlier ""deduction"" that he was ""not okay"", that he's going to die and asks her if she's willing to help, telling her that he ""needs her"". John goes to the Diogenes Club to question Mycroft and learns that Mycroft"
"season 2, episode 6 ""An Unnatural Arrangement"", the case is solved by Sherlock Holmes partly by realising that a dog had not barked in the night and thus an important accomplice was known by the dog, in an obvious reference to Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze plot device. Additionally, the following episode, ""The Marchioness"", involved a race horse named Silver Blaze and the use of dye to disguise a horse, although the cases in the two episodes were otherwise unconnected. The Adventure of Silver Blaze ""The Adventure of Silver Blaze"", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British"
"when she declines to state exactly where she is going. Fagin realizes that Nancy is up to something, perhaps has a new boyfriend, and resolves to find out what her secret is. Meanwhile, Noah has fallen out with the undertaker Mr Sowerberry, stolen money from him, and fled to London with Charlotte. Using the name ""Morris Bolter"", he joins Fagin's gang for protection and becomes a practicer of ""the kinchin lay"" (robbing of children), and Charlotte is put with the girls. Fagin sends Noah to watch the Artful Dodger on trial, after he is caught with a stolen silver snuff"